Our March read for the Classics Book Group, this title received a unanimous thumbs up from the group. Covering a wide range of settings, from revolutionary Mexico to 1930s Texas to interwar Europe, each title offers something new. There are stories featuring the recurrent character Miranda, a stand-in for Porter from a genteel southern family fallen on hard-ish times. My favorites include the famous Pale Horse, Pale Rider, about a newspaper reporter's grim encounter with Spanish flu, The Jilting of Granny Weatherall, and Noon Wine. Two stories, He and the extraordinary Holiday, feature characters with cognitive disabilities; these are sensitive, moving stories and were almost certainly ahead of their time.
